World War I Vocabulary

a formal pact or agreement between or among nations

• Militarism

• Nationalism

• Alliance

• Imperialism

a member of the majority faction of the party that seized power in 1917 and formed the Communist party in the Soviet Union

• Bolshevik

• revolutionary

• loyalist

• American

a member of the armed forces removed from active duty as a result of being killed, wounded, captured, or missing in action

• target

• Tsar

• soldier

• casualty

the theory of a classless social system in which all property and means of production are owned in common; socialist theory deriving from the works of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

• what America has

• Communism

• Totalitarianism

• Capitalism

compulsory enrollment in military service

• draft

• active duty

• conscription

• volunteering

the idea that the acquisition (buying/selling) of goods is beneficial to society or its economy

• communism

• socialism

• pardoning

• consumerism

the practice or skill of conducting negotiations between nations or governments

• diplomacy

• nationalism

• imperialism

• patriotism

"At first, the soldiers were proud to fight for their nation in the war, but after fighting for years, they were in a state of disillusion about its purpose and progress".

The sentence above best represent ___________.

• disillusion

• dismay

• disappointment

• de-motivation

The best definition of the world Ethnic is:

• an idea and movement that promotes the interests of a particular nation, especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining the nation's sovereignty over its homeland

• a political, social, and economic philosophy encompassing a range of economic and social systems characterized by social ownership of the means of production

• of or related to a large group of people who share a distinctive culture, language, or religion, or who are of the same race or national heritage

The mass murder of over 1 million Armenians living within the Ottoman Empire is an example of:

• Genocide, or the intentional attempt to exterminate all members of a certain race, nationality, religious, or ethnic group

• Nationalism, or the rise of prideful sentiments and beliefs about ones own country

• Imperialism, or the spreading of cultural, territorial, and economic influence

• Diplomacy, or the act of conducting negotiations between countries